Pandoc: lists may disappear when reading from html

[danieltuzes]

When I convert the file

<div>
Some text
<ul>
<li>element</li>
</ul>
</div>

from html to pandoc markdown the result is

<div>

Some text - first

</div>

Which is then converted back to

<div>
<p>Some text - first</p>
</div>

This behavior is not expected by my side. I expect to get the same result. Or is this behavior expected? Then why? Cause the first code is valid, but pandoc represents content without list.

[mb21]

I can reproduce this issue. Minimal example:

$ pandoc -f native -t markdown

[ Plain [Str "Some",Space,Str "text"]
, BulletList [[Plain [Str "element"]]]
]


Some text
-   element

The markdown writer should always put a blank line in front of a list.

[danieltuzes]

@mb21 Please form sentences, I simply don't understand what you want.

[mb21]

@danieltuzes sorry, I edited my comment...

[jgm]

The markdown writer should always put a blank line in front of a list.

Not always...we don't want a blank line in front of a sublist in a tight nested list, for example.

[jgm]

@danieltuzes - what version of pandoc are you using?

With current HEAD we get different output (see @mb21's example), but there's still a problem because there's no blank line before the list.

[danieltuzes]

I use pandoc 1.19.2.1 Compiled with pandoc-types 1.17.0.4, texmath 0.9, skylighting 0.1.1.4

[jgm]

Probably it would work to make the following transformation in the Markdown writer:

convert Plain before anything but a RawBlock to Para, unless (a) the following block is a list and (b) the immediate parent of the Plain element is a list.

[danieltuzes]

@jgm Could you please inform me what do you suggest me to do? Or do you agree that this behavior in not intended and I shall wait for the next version of Pandoc?

[jgm]

It will be fixed in the next version.

+++ danieltuzes [Mar 08 17 03:52 ]:

[1]@jgm Could you please inform me what do you suggest me to do? Or do
you agree that this behavior in not intended and I shall wait for the
next version of Pandoc?

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